On Wings of Hope, Releasing Sorrow

• Is it possible to fully process grief and traumatic loss?
• Do you get over a loss, or do you work through the pain?
• Does time make a difference to grief?
• Is it possible to box your grief neatly into the five stages?
• Is it possible to stop grieving without the fear of forgetting your loved one?
• What about the parent that lost a child? Is there hope?
• Is the grief different when you lost a child, spouse, or sibling?
• What challenges are you faced with when you lost somebody to traumatic circumstances, like murder or suicide?

Processing a huge loss is a challenge. It is normal to want to soon want to feel like your old, normal self, but if we don’t confront the pain of grief, there can be no “better”.  Grief that isn’t dealt with, doesn’t go away, it only becomes a life-long partner.

“Pain that is not transformed is transmitted” – Richard Rohr